The booming textile industry of 1854 made Mumbai an important industrial center in the country. During the later 19th century the industry grew significantly thus contributing to the prosperity of Mumbai. Girangaon in the center of Mumbai is the place where it had 130 textile factories and contributed to the growth of the textile and cotton industry. It covered an area of almost 600 acres. In 1982 the strike over 18 months, mills were permanently closed and triggered the end of the fighting industry. Later, Phoenix's factory, Dawn Nill in Lower Parel, Kamla Mills, Zenzi Factory and other general mill industry was a source of survival for lakhs of the mill workers in Mumbai, who were now sold and Became commercial complexes, shopping centers and tall buildings.
Here is the chronological order of the rise and fall of textile factories in Mumbai:
1854 - Cowasji Nanabhai Davar established the first mill, called Bombay Spinning Mill. He produced cotton textiles for Great Britain.
1860s to 1915 - There was a significant increase in factories from 13 in 1870 to 70 in 1875. Later 83 mills in 1915. This encouraged the manual workers of Konkan to settle in Lalbaug and Parel.
1920 to 1960 - Shripad Amrit Dange founder of CPI leading the mill workers' union since 1920 and had strikes in 1928 and 1929. Left had control over the union until 1960 and later Shiv Sena took control known as Bharatiya Kamgar Sena. With the decline of the left, the textile industry coincidentally also began to decline.
1982 - On 18 January, 2.5 Lakh workers went on strike against the Bombay Mill Owners Association under the leadership of Datta Samant. Demanded bonus and salary increase. The strike proved to be a disaster with the closure of 58 mills and the creation of 1.5 lakh unemployed workers.
1991 - The state government introduced the Development Control Rule 58, which states that factory owners can sell their factory land in compliance with the following rules:
to. BMC must be delivered 1 / 3rd Earth,
second. MHADA to get 1/3 ground. Of which half of the land should be given to housing projects for mill workers.
do. 1 / 3rd land must be developed by the owner of the plant
2001 - The DC rule was amended and the state government said that it applied only to "open lands" and not to all mill lands. The open land came to just over 100 acres of a total of 600 acres of textile mill land.
2005 - In March 2005, the National Textile Corporation (NTC) had 25 mills in the city worth almost Rs 5000 crore. They sold their mills as follows:
1) Sold Jupiter Mills to IndiaBulls for Rs 276 crore.
2) In June, the Mumbai Textile Mills was sold for Rs 702 crore,
3) In July, Kohinoor Mill number 3 was sold to Manohar Joshi and Raj Thackeray for Rs 421 crore.
2006 - The Supreme Court said that the sale of the mills was legal and that modifications to the rules for developing mills were valid.
2010 - NTC has decided to reopen three factories - India United Mills no. 5 in Kalachowkie, Podar Mills in Chinchpokali on 19 January and Tata Mills in Hindmata.